marconigram
English edit
Etymology edit
Marconi + -gram, from the name of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937).
Noun edit
marconigram (plural marconigrams)
- (dated) A message sent via radio.
- 1908, Society of Friends, Minutes and Proceedings of the Five Years Meeting:
- The marconigram would not carry all the way across the Atlantic...
- 1913, James Andrew White, Jerome W Howe, C S Anderson, The Wireless Age:
- At a nod the man brought him a marconigram.
- 1926, George Dilnot, The Story of Scotland Yard:
- This was the marconigram which was to be the key to unlock the whole mystery.
- 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 18, in Well Tackled![1]:
- The ship was properly cleared for Portland, U.S.A., subject to orders at that port or on the high seas. A marconigram received at midday altered her destination to Leningrad.